Helping Others Listen For God’s Voice
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Helping Others Listen For God’s Voice
So the main skill in discipling others is creating “safe and holy space” where people open their heart and mind to have a spiritual experience with God.
Our first skill that we encourage is talking to God.
The second skill we encourage is LISTENING FOR GOD’S VOICE
WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN HELP SOMEONE ELSE LISTEN FOR GOD’S VOICE?
One friend of mine said that he went to a park and sat on a bench. He sensed “intuitions,” he said. I asked him how he knew these were words from God and not his own thoughts or just some other source. He gave me a list of qualities. They turned out to be similar to the list in James 2, of the good gifts that come down from the Father of Lights. I told him, “That’s amazing. You created a list from your own experience and it matches a list from over 2000 years ago that another person created from their experience with God.”
WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN HELP SOMEONE ELSE LISTEN FOR GOD’S VOICE?
Some people live the Christian life without ever being sure that they have heard God’s voice. It is easy to approach Christian faith as a set of propositions that one believes in one’s head. Jesus said, “I and the Father are one.” “What the Father says to me, I say to you.” “The Father is in me, and I am in the Father.” Jesus taught his disciples to move through life in a relationship with God the Father that was similar to the experience that Jesus himself enjoyed with the Father. Before Jesus left, he said, “I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you.” The Christian life is a spiritual life, a life of spiritual relationship. It is like living water, flowing, like a fire from above, like light that shines in the darkness, like food that you don’t know where it comes from, all in the midst of the ordinary, mundane, suffering, painful realities of life.
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A song will come on in the background in a restaurant. A friend will hear it and reminisce.
For example, a Realtor’s husband had passed. She heard a song they played at their wedding that is rarely played.
She could share grief over frozen coconut milk dessert.
I call it a God’s the DJ moment. A sweet, listening time.
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